Em's PLOA Extraordinare: #8

10.11.2006

#8

Life is not a list of propositions, it is a series of dramatic scenes. As Eugene Peterson said, We live in narrative, we live in story. Existence has a stroy shape to it. We have a beginning and an end, we have plot, we have characters." Story is the language of the heart. Our souls speak not in the naked facts of mathematics or the abstract propositions of systematic theology; they speak the images and emotions of stroy... Elie Wiesel suggests that "God created man because he loves stories." So if we're going to find the answer to the riddle of the earth- and of our own existence- we'll find it in story.

From The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge, pp. 39-40

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Em's PLOA Extraordinare

10.11.2006

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